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- Author, Pamela Bilalova
- Role, BBC News
An MP has hit out at what he referred to as “spoilt, middle-class climate clowns” after his workplace was focused by Just Stop Oil protesters.
Mark Jenkinson’s constituency workplace on Senhouse Street in Maryport was focused by protesters at about 08:10 BST on Friday, who coated the home windows in posters studying “Stop Tory Coal”.
Two ladies have been arrested following the protest, which was towards plans for a brand new coal mine in West Cumbria.
Just Stop Oil branded Mr Jenkinson’s feedback “adolescent”.
Mr Jenkinson, the Conservative MP for Workington, referred to as the protesters “plonkers” in a social media submit criticising their actions.
Speaking to the BBC, he described the protesters as “entitled morons who think they are above the law”.
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He stated the window cleaner, who had simply left, needed to return to clean-up “after these overgrown attention-seeking babies”.
“Unfortunately, the movie on the glass has been scratched and a few of the paintwork broken by the infantile antics of those spoilt, middle-class climate clowns,” he added.
He additional criticised the protesters who he stated had pushed to the world in vehicles that run on fossil fuels, used plastic tape and paper produced from the felling of bushes, in addition to leaving gadgets behind for others to clean-up.
Cumbria Police stated it was investigating stories a window had been broken by an adhesive.
A girl in her 40s and one other in her 60s have been each arrested on suspicion of legal harm.
Mr Jenkinson added: “I’ve it on good authority that the ringleader is spending some carbon impartial time within the cells.
“They intentionally picked a sitting Friday as a result of they thought I wouldn’t be right here – however because it occurs I used to be, and I gave them a number of alternative Anglo-Saxon phrases earlier than they scuttled again to their hiding locations as most individuals head to work.”
‘Adolescent response’
In response Just Stop Oil stated opening a brand new coal mine in Cumbria was “total madness”.
Permission for the mine close to Whitehaven was given in December 2022, making it the primary new coal mine to be accredited in 30 years.
Supporters welcomed promised jobs however critics argued at the time it could undermine climate change targets.
Just Stop Oil questioned whether or not Mr Jenkinson’s tirade in response to their actions was the “standard of adolescent response” constituents deserved.
A spokesman stated: “Opening a brand new coal mine as our climate spins out of management is whole insanity.
“The British metal trade doesn’t need this mine for coking coal.
“It’s time atypical folks held “plonkers” like Mark Jenkinson to account, as a result of at the second politics is failing us.”
In response to the MP’s claims about driving vehicles and utilizing different polluting supplies, the group stated: “For the record, he hasn’t a clue how our people got there.”